{"id":1981,"date":"2011-08-06T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batsinbeds.wordpress.com\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2012-02-19T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T16:58:42","slug":"mist-netting-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Mist netting success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night several bat group members went out to survey a wood in north Bedfordshire . We put up the double height net which Bob improvised last season and it proved its worth again when into it flew not one but two barbastelles, both post lactating females.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/barbastelle-aug-5th-2011-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1986\" title=\"Barbastelle-aug-5th-2011--4\" src=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/barbastelle-aug-5th-2011-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>These beautiful bats are one of our favourites. It is sometimes claimed that it gets its name\u00a0 (Barbastellus) after theItalian for &#8220;star beard&#8221;. This is probably not true but you can see in this picture\u00a0 that it has a lot of fur under its chin<\/p>\n<p>Both of the bats were caught in the double height net.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/natterers-aug-2-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1987 alignright\" title=\"Natterer's-Aug-2-2011\" src=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/natterers-aug-2-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>We also caught some brown long eared bats who escaped being photographed and a delightful juvenile Natterer&#8217;s who was lively and curious while he was being handled.<br \/>\nNatterer&#8217;s are woodland bats which are realy hard to spot. They are almost impossis]ble to identify by call alone, so were were delighted to be able to confirm their presence.<\/p>\n<p>We are aiming to radiotag barbs in another wood later this week. What the betting we don&#8217;t get a female?<\/p>\n<p>Photos Bob Cornes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night several bat group members went out to survey a wood in north Bedfordshire . We put up the double height net which Bob improvised last season and it proved its worth again when into it flew not one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[63,108,35],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-join-us-about-us","tag-barbastelle","tag-mist-netting","tag-natterers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5338,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}